2012 INCSR: Introduction BUREAU OF INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS AND LAW ENFORCEMENT AFFAIRS 2012 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR) Report March 7, 2012 Legislative Basis for the INCSR The Department of State’s International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR) has been prepared in accordance with section 489 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended (the…
Category: Crime and Violence
34 violently injured people between Potosi and Oruro, is this blunt anarchy or what??!!
Freddy Lacio reports for El Deber’s website: At least 34 wounded, four of them seriously, is the result of a clash between peasants from the municipalities of Quillacas, Oruro, and Coroma, Potosí, for the possession of tracts of land suitable for cultivation of quinoa, found in the boundary between of both departments and which are…
Bolivian government’s political style and performance, as of March 2012
Current Bolivian government continues to have serious managerial misfits and sadly it shows an incredible aptitude for flunking, despite over six years in government; the following cartoons just illustrate how it was perceived by Bolivian society, close to the end of February 2012: This one is from El Diario, February 29, 2012. Both current president…
Bolivian presidential’s priorities… coca yes, seacoast claim & others… not for now, they can just wait
Over this week, news reported of the intention’s of current Bolivian president to travel to either push the agenda related to our seacoast claim against Chile in the international forum or to advocate for the coca chewing… well, it was not a hard dilemma, as expected the current leader of the coca growers from the…
What do we have in common with Cuba, Iran and North Korea? take a guess!
The Financial Action Task Force (FATF and in Spanish GAFI) is a very reputable institution and has been monitoring our fairly new “economy,” El Deber reports: Bolivia and Cuba remain without complying with the norms against money-laundering Bolivia and Cuba are on the list of countries that do not meet international standards against money laundering…
Let’s show support to TIPNIS, February 16, 2012
Stakeholders must show support to the indigenous owner’s of the TIPNIS territory as well as to the integrity of this and ALL National Parks! Current Bolivian government is literally playing with the Constitution, laws and other forms of tampering and jeopardizing the self-determination and indigenous rights, let alone the preservation we must keep of our…
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